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116 public-domain novels books, summarised. Page 3 of 3.
The perfect wife
Phyllis Bottome
When her husband falls in love with a younger woman, a meticulous and unshakeable wife arranges their divorce, engineering an unconventional journey through Italy to keep them all close.
An Old Meerschaum: From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
David Christie Murray
A life of idle contentment is shattered when a stray act of kindness and a dash of romantic folly collide with a vengeful, hidden enemy.
Thorns of regret
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
A young woman believes herself a widow, only to discover that the husband she once scorned is alive and the brother she now loves is bound by honor to step aside.
Spring fire
Vin Packer
A young woman enters the sheltered world of university sororities, only to find herself caught in a transformative and forbidden romance that threatens to dismantle her carefully constructed future.
The Woman Who Dared
Epes Sargent
The Woman Who Dared is a spirited, unconventional narrative poem that challenges the social constraints of the nineteenth century. It explores the autonomy of the female spirit against a backdrop of rigid domestic expectations and legal injustice.
Master and Man
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
A wealthy merchant and his humble laborer are lost in a brutal winter storm, leading to a profound test of character that forces one man to choose between his greed and another’s life.
The Red Gods
Jean d' Esme
HOOK Deep in the Indochinese jungle, a French administrator and a missionary track a legend of "red gods"—a lost tribe of prehistoric humans. Their obsession leads them into a primal world of stone-age terror.
Hagar
James Arthur MacKnight
A young woman’s flight from a deceitful suitor leads her into the heart of 1860s Utah, where she must navigate the complex, often predatory dynamics of a society built on polygamy.
Adaptation
Mack Reynolds
A group of specialized Earth explorers attempts to accelerate the development of two primitive colonial worlds, only to find that their own conflicting political ideologies and pursuit of power transform them into the very masters they intended to supersede.
The Best Made Plans
Everett B. Cole
A young man with an unsettling, near-hypnotic influence over others finds himself at the center of a galactic political conspiracy. He must decide whether to seize power or walk away from the people he has helped.
The Galaxy Primes
E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
HOOK Four telepathic geniuses, stranded billions of parsecs from Earth, must navigate a hostile cosmos while managing their own volatile relationships. Their journey is a race against both alien threats and the constraints of their own immense, unchecked power.
The immoralist
André Gide
The journey toward self-discovery often demands the destruction of everything one holds dear. In this stark narrative, a man’s recovery from a brush with death triggers an insatiable, reckless hunger to experience life in its most primal, unfiltered state.
The Planet Strappers
Raymond Z. (Raymond Zinke) Gallun
The frontier of space is not a romantic destination but a vast, unforgiving void that demands the ultimate price from those who dare to claim it. This is a story of how ordinary people trade their humanity for the cold, dangerous promise of the stars.
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
A radical young intellect challenges the refined traditions of the Russian landed gentry, igniting a fierce clash between progressive cynicism and traditional elegance that alters two families forever.
A fatal silence, vol. 1 (of 3)
Florence Marryat
A young woman accepts a rural teaching post, only to find every movement weighed, misread, and gossiped about by local moralists.
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany
Beyond the border of everyday fields lies a realm where twilight never shifts, time stands still, and a single decision can unmoor an entire valley from the mortal world.
The World's Greatest Books
Unknown
A tapestry of classic narrative, this vast collection captures the enduring essence of human storytelling in its purest forms.
Talents, Incorporated
Murray Leinster
A small planetary fleet faces total annihilation until a bizarre company of psychic oddballs offers to predict the enemy's every move.
The Marching Morons
C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth
A cunning twentieth-century swindler wakes from a centuries-long slumber into a future where average intelligence has plunged, finding himself uniquely suited to solve the high-IQ ruling minority's most desperate crisis.
Ten From Infinity
Paul W. Fairman
A routine traffic accident in Manhattan uncovers a secret that threatens the entire human race.